what are some songs out there you could SWEAR are another artist because the song successfully copied a formula of another artist?

offhand I can think of the following:

Baby Love-Regina is VERY Madonna sounding, and I bet part of the reason it went top 10 is because people probably thought it was a new Madonna song

Oh Sheila-Ready For The World and Do Anything-Natural Selection are both songs that were more than a little Prince-influenced

The Art Of Losing-American Hi Fi almost sounds identical to something Adam And The Ants would've recorded back in 1981.

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79

Oh Sheila-Ready For The World
more than a little Prince-influenced



That may be why I always liked RFTW. It wasn't just the sound musically. Lyrically, and with vocal ad-libs they were just weird enough with some of their songs, I think they showed Prince-influence that way too. There'd be acts, like the Jets, who just basically copied the sound. RFTW were so good at it, I think, you would think they were one of Prince's own protege acts.

Let's not forget the first track on the Beatles "White Album" called "Back in the USSR". That song copied their style from the Beach Boys.:lol: Oh by the way, "Baby Love" by Regina was the song that I've never that on the radio in years. Regina didn't sound exactly like Madonna.

Family's "Second Generation Woman," written by bassist Rick Grech (later of Blind Faith and Traffic), is a stylistic dead ringer for the Beatles's "Paperback Writer." :eek: